Somer Everson News Today

Thursday, December 24, 2020 10:52 am In my earliest memory of my father, Kermit Gibby “Gib” Nelson, he was singing a song. It was the song he learned at his birth, Dec. 27, 1933, from his parents, Elisha “Mockingbird” Nelson and Pearl Nelson. It was a song he later taught his brothers and sisters: Janet Hardeman, Nell Jenkins, Kenneth Nelson, Ida Green, Elizabeth Carter, and Tommy Nelson. It was the song he was singing when he entered the U.S. Air Force. For two decades, he s...